std::bitset::bitset

	(1)
bitset();			(until C++11)
constexpr bitset();			(since C++11)
		(2)
bitset( unsigned long val );				(until C++11)
constexpr bitset( unsigned long long val );				(since C++11)
			(3)
template< class CharT, class Traits, class Alloc > explicit bitset( const std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>& str, typename std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::size_type pos = 0, typename std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::size_type n = std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::npos);					(until C++11)
template< class CharT, class Traits, class Alloc > explicit bitset( const std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>& str, typename std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::size_type pos = 0, typename std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::size_type n = std::basic_string<CharT,Traits,Alloc>::npos, CharT zero = CharT('0'), CharT one = CharT('1'));					(since C++11)
template< class CharT > explicit bitset( const CharT* str, typename std::basic_string<CharT>::size_type n = std::basic_string<CharT>::npos, CharT zero = CharT('0'), CharT one = CharT('1'));				(4)	(since C++11)

Constructs a new bitset from one of several optional data sources:

1) Default constructor. Constructs a bitset with all bits set to zero.

2) Constructs a bitset, initializing the first (rightmost, least significant) M bit positions to the corresponding bit values of val, where M is the smaller of the number of bits in an unsigned long long and the number of bits N in the bitset being constructed. If M is less than N (the bitset is longer than 32 (until C++11)64 (since C++11) bits, for typical implementations of unsigned long (since C++11)long), the remaining bit positions are initialized to zeroes.

3) Constructs a bitset using the characters in the std::basic_string str. An optional starting position pos and length n can be provided, as well as characters denoting alternate values for set (one) and unset (zero) bits. Traits::eq() is used to compare the character values.

The effective length of the initializing string is min(n, str.size() - pos).

If pos > str.size(), this constructor throws std::out_of_range. If any characters examined in str are not zero or one, it throws std::invalid_argument.

4) Similar to (3), but uses a CharT* instead of a std::basic_string. Equivalent to bitset(n == basic_string<CharT>::npos ? basic_string<CharT>(str) : basic_string<CharT>(str, n), 0, n, zero, one)

#include <bitset>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <climits>
 
int main() 
{
    // empty constructor
    std::bitset<8> b1; // [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
 
    // unsigned long long constructor
    std::bitset<8> b2(42);          // [0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0]
    std::bitset<70> bl(ULLONG_MAX); // [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,...,1,1,1] in C++11
    std::bitset<8> bs(0xfff0);      // [1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0]
 
    // string constructor
    std::string bit_string = "110010";
    std::bitset<8> b3(bit_string);       // [0,0,1,1,0,0,1,0]
    std::bitset<8> b4(bit_string, 2);    // [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]
    std::bitset<8> b5(bit_string, 2, 3); // [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]
 
    // string constructor using custom zero/one digits
    std::string alpha_bit_string = "aBaaBBaB";
    std::bitset<8> b6(alpha_bit_string, 0, alpha_bit_string.size(),
                      'a', 'B');         // [0,1,0,0,1,1,0,1]
 
    // char* constructor using custom digits
    std::bitset<8> b7("XXXXYYYY", 8, 'X', 'Y'); // [0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1]
 
    std::cout << b1 << '\n' << b2 << '\n' << bl << '\n' << bs << '\n'
              << b3 << '\n' << b4 << '\n' << b5 << '\n' << b6 << '\n'
              << b7 << '\n';
}

Output:

00000000
00101010
0000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
11110000
00110010
00000010
00000001
01001101
00001111

[edit] See also

set	sets bits to true or given value (public member function)
reset	sets bits to false (public member function)

Language
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Concepts
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Containers library
Algorithms library
Iterators library
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Regular expressions library (C++11)
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Technical Specifications

Type support (basic types, RTTI, type traits)
Dynamic memory management
Error handling
Program utilities
Variadic functions
Date and time
Function objects
initializer_list (C++11)
bitset
hash (C++11)
Relational operators
rel_ops::operator!=rel_ops::operator>rel_ops::operator<=rel_ops::operator>=
Optional and any
optional (C++17)
any (C++17)
Pairs and tuples
pair
tuple (C++11)
apply (C++17)
piecewise_construct_t (C++11)
piecewise_construct (C++11)
integer_sequence (C++14)
Swap, forward and move
swap
exchange (C++14)
forward (C++11)
move (C++11)
move_if_noexcept (C++11)
Type operations
declval (C++11)
as_const (C++17)

Member types
bitset::reference
Member functions
bitset::bitset
bitset::operator==bitset::operator!=
Element access
bitset::operator[]
bitset::test
bitset::allbitset::anybitset::none (C++11)
bitset::count
Capacity
bitset::size
Modifiers
bitset::operator&=bitset::operator\|=bitset::operator^=bitset::operator~
bitset::operator<<=bitset::operator>>=bitset::operator<<bitset::operator>>
bitset::set
bitset::reset
bitset::flip
Conversions
bitset::to_string
bitset::to_ulong
bitset::to_ullong (C++11)
Non-member functions
operator&operator\|operator^
operator<<operator>>
Helper classes
std::hash (C++11)

val	-	number used to initialize the bitset
str	-	string used to initialize the bitset
pos	-	a starting offset into `str`
n	-	number of characters to use from `str`
one	-	alternate character for set bits in `str`
zero	-	alternate character for unset bits in `str`

std::bitset::bitset

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[edit] See also

1) none 2) none	(until C++11)
1) `noexcept` specification: noexcept 2) `noexcept` specification: noexcept	(since C++11)